> If you think 8gb of ram is enough, which it isn't, especially on macOS.
Depends what you do, and for many people you'd be wrong.
I've been using an 8GB M1 Air for a couple of years and never had an issue caused by memory constraints.
And that's with multiple instances of Rider and GoLand, VS Mac, VS Code, dozens of Brave tabs, multiple terminal sessions, locally-running Postgres, MS Word, Calibre, and more running simultaneously on a cold and silent machine. Also AI art generation using Stable Diffusion models, 768x768 rendering, and 4x upscaling, without issue. Plus running Parallels with Windows 11 and Visual Studio (ARM) was totally acceptable.
The only thing I haven't tried, and that I expect it would choke on, is multiple VMs or loads of containers.
It's amazing what you can do with 8GB RAM. I'd echo your original especially on macOS but to show the exact opposite, as my 16GB 10th Gen i5 Windows 11 machine lags with a much smaller workload whilst heating the house.